Economic Development Projects

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Music Maker Foundation helps musicians over the age of 55 avoid poverty through providing food, shelter, and medical care, and helps them continue making music and sharing their gifts with the world.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Help with an artist's grocery bill
	$50 - Provide gas to a gig
	$100 - Pay an artist's utility bill
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Increase safety and incomes for Nepal climbers

Nepal,

Economic Development

At our climbing school, Nepali students are taught mountain safety, English, technical mountain climbing skills, and emergency medicine. The outcome is safer expeditions and higher wages for guides.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Pays registration and insurance for one Nepalese Student to attend the Khumbu Climbing School
	$100 - A full scholarship, including room and board, for one porter to attend the Khumbu Climbing School
	$200 - Pays for the salary of one Nepali teacher for English or Climbing courses
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Sustain the Lives of Kenyan AIDS Orphans&Families

Kenya,

Economic Development

This project provides initial education and healthcare sponsorship to HIV/AIDS orphans. Families will get training and business start-up capital so they can further support the orphans.

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How You Can Help:

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	$250 - Will provide school books to 20 orphans.
	$500 - Will create 2 jobs and support 6 family members.
	$1,000 - Will keep 20 orphans alive through healthcare insurance.
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Combating Hunger via Livestock for Families, Niger

Niger,

Economic Development

RI's Livestock Program is supplying starving pastoral households or communities, the most vulnerable populations in Niger, with herds & flocks of livestock for income & food supplies during droughts.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Provide one weeks worth of fodder for one families' livestock
	$50 - Provide necessary veterinary care to one families' livestock for one year
	$74 - Provide veterinary care to one village for a month
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Give Microcredit Loans to Women in Bosnia

Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Economic Development

Women for Women International’s Microcredit Lending Program in Bosnia provides small business loans to women survivors of war so they can move from victim to survivor to active citizen.

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How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$50 - or less will be combined with other gifts to give a first-time loan to a woman survivor of war.
	$900 - provides a loan to a woman, giving her the chance to launch her own business.
	$5,000 - provides 6 microcredit loans to women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, helping them to build a better future for their families.
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Restore Historic Castle in Szadvar, Hungary

Hungary,

Economic Development

This project provides 100 volunteers with food, tents, building material and other supplies to work for three weeks on a historic monument restoration at Szadvar Castle in rural Hungary.

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How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$25 - would provide food & place to sleep for a volunteer for a day
	$50 - would provide building material and tools for a volunteer
	$120 - would allow hiring a carpenter to work on the restoration
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Livelihood for 500 Tribal Women in Gujarat

India,

Economic Development

This project enables livelihood for women in rural Gujarat through Sakhi Sangathan, a women's collective, which grows, buys and sells its own farm produce at profit in a male dominated market.

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How You Can Help:

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	$40 - Will teach 1 woman how to drive - will enable 500 more to market their products
	$40 - Is the cost of 2 months of management training for one woman
	$90 - Will obtain crop insurance for 15 women
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	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Creating Opportunity for Darfur Women

Sudan,

Economic Development

The Baskets of Darfur project aims to support the livelihoods and dignity of Sudanese women who are living in Internally Displaced Persons camps in Darfur, Sudan.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Buys one Basket of Darfur produced by IDP women
	$50 - Provides training for one young woman to learn to weave
	$100 - Buys the raw materials for 25 handwoven baskets
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	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Empower 10,000 Students to Launch Social Business

Kenya,

Economic Development

Young people making a living by making a difference. umake100 connects young people with great business ideas to mentoring, hands-on learning experiences and seed funding for social businesses.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Empowers 2 students as social business innovators
	$50 - Inspires 5 students to transform their communities
	$100 - Equips 10 students to be successful entrepreneurs
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Bringing Business to Bridges in Nepal

Nepal,

Economic Development

EcoSystems Nepal has requested MWB's support in providingide affordable renewable energy to villagers that are not connected to grid po

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Cost for 2 days of MBA volunteers insurance
	$20 - Provides daily stipend for MBA volunteer to continue supporting Ecosystems
	$60 - Supports MWB Staff to manage project for 1 week
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

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